Looks like hard work pays off.
The headers look beautiful. I'm faster than 10.99 but barely so maybe these would look and work well on my ride.
Back to the coating.
Option 1: Ceramic coating
Option 2:Thermal coating on the exterior w/ceramic over
Option 3:Thermal coating on the exterior w/ceramic over
and a internal coating that has some thermal qualities and promotes the rapid removal of the exhaust.
And yes you can do all 3. But it is time consuming.
Step 2, alone should drop you about 400 deg. surface temp.
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I still would not put my hand on it. But
it sure can't hurt to remove any under hood temps.
As far as delaminating (stuff coming off ) pre turbo
Prep,prep,prep.
Degrease, preheat(to drive out any contaminates and allow for out gassing) manually get a profile, (sand blast, wire wheel, etc...) clean, iron phosphate, start 1st. application.
The only thing I would begin to put a internal coating on pre turbo would have to be new metal! TOOOO many
contaminates in a used part.